Search Results for author: Francesca Tria

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On the emergence of syntactic structures: quantifying and modelling duality of patterning

no code implementations11 Feb 2016 Vittorio Loreto, Pietro Gravino, Vito D. P. Servedio, Francesca Tria

First, we introduce suitable measures to quantify the level of combinatoriality and compositionality in a language, and present a framework to estimate these observables in human natural languages.

Internal and external dynamics in language: Evidence from verb regularity in a historical corpus of English

no code implementations12 Aug 2014 Christine F. Cuskley, Martina Pugliese, Claudio Castellano, Francesca Colaiori, Vittorio Loreto, Francesca Tria

These findings contribute to the debate on how language systems become rule governed, and how and why they sustain exceptions to rules, providing insight into the interplay between the emergence and maintenance of rules and exceptions in language.

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